AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley

We were thrilled to see Abhi Maheshwari, Aisera's CEO, and Utkarsh Contractor, Aisera's VP of AI, connect with the brilliant minds at University of California, Berkeley this weekend! They had the incredible opportunity to share Aisera's inspiring journey, the evolution of AI & GenAI, and the real-world impact of how AI Agents are reshaping traditional work for the AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley group. The students' enthusiasm and curiosity about AI innovation sparked meaningful conversations on how AI is transforming industries and enhancing experiences. A big thank you to Rohan Sontakke for hosting us!

We were overall winners of the Supabase AI hackathon at Y Combinator! Elijah Muraoka, Michael Long, Soumil Rathi, and I built an assistant that browses Twitter for you, curating your feed and generating smart replies based on your interests/niche.

🚀 Calling all ML engineers and researchers Advex AI just raised a $3.6M seed round from top investors and are now hiring for talented engineers! Here's what you need to know about the roles: 🍐 In-person in San Fransisco 🍐 Publish papers at top AI conferences 🍐 Base salary of $140,000-$200,000/yr + equity 🍐 Develop foundation models, work on diffusion, and build 0-1 products impacting millions of lives And here's what you need to know about Advex: ➡️ Solving one of the hardest problems in AI (data collection) in a novel way using generative modeling and synthetic data ➡️ Reducing the time it takes to build a production-grade computer vision model from 6 months to just a few hours ➡️ Several Fortune 500 customers in under a year So if you want to join a world-class team at the forefront of AI And are looking for a role with lots of impact and career growth Apply to Advex below 👇 ML/SWE: https://dub.sh/5Ywyc3Q Research: https://dub.sh/Dl6dymm p.s: see how Advex has been able to improve vision models by 175% using NVIDIA’z deep learning platform here https://dub.sh/HZMlKQb

NVIDIA TAO 🤝 Advex Synthetic Data Platform Whether its finding rotten fruit 🤢 or inspecting PCBs 🔍 see how Advex-powered synthetic data improves model performance by 45% to 200% using the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit #MachineVision #IndustrialAutomation #AdvexAI #NVIDIA #NVIDIATAO #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #AI #CV Pedro Pachuca Qasim Wani Nicholas Blake Benjamin Pikus Catherine Li Brandon Trabucco Pear VC Construct Capital Emerson Collective

See how Advex AI synthetic data and NVIDIA TAO Toolkit improve industrial inspection.

Less than 2% of startups get into Y Combinator 😳 Here’s what you'd learn if you're fortunate enough to get in: 1. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐂 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟎 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 https://lnkd.in/gBRU-nFV 2. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 https://lnkd.in/gNyizgeM 3. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐀 𝐂𝐨-𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 https://lnkd.in/gXbvQFsX 4. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 https://lnkd.in/gyzAU63y 5. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐓𝐨 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 https://lnkd.in/gctkNS7B 6. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐧 𝐌𝐕𝐏 https://lnkd.in/ged4-Ej9 7. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 https://lnkd.in/gfNgvuQc 8. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 https://lnkd.in/gUNGnpPV 9. 𝐁𝟐𝐁 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 https://lnkd.in/gdibSdpa 10. 𝐁𝟐𝐂 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 https://lnkd.in/g--MWVr6 11. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞? https://lnkd.in/gwgddkmM 12. 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎+ 𝐘𝐂 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬 https://lnkd.in/gnP4GY3g And just like that you didn’t have to move to San Francisco or give up 7% of your company. Shoutout to my friend Kevin Jurovich for helping put this together. #startups #venturecapital —— Follow Sundar Swaminathan for B2C startup marketing frameworks, how-to guides, and stories

Advex AI Raises $3.5M Seed Round, Launches Revolutionary GenAI Synthetic Data Platform for AI Vision in Manufacturing https://lnkd.in/ePRcRG4M Advex AI #AdvexAI #SyntheticData #GenAI #AIinManufacturing #SeedFunding #TechInnovation #DataScience #MachineLearning #StartupFunding

Advex AI AI, co-founded by Pedro Pachuca and Qasim Wani, has closed a $3.5M seed round led by Construct Capital, with Pear VC, Emerson Collective, and angels like Dropbox's Arash Ferdowsi. A TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Finalist, Advex is redefining AI Vision for manufacturing with GenAI-powered data synthesis, turning months of data collection into hours. With seven global manufacturers already onboard, Advex’s platform enables rapid, production-grade automation, addressing labor shortages in critical industries. https://lnkd.in/eeUpGxRp #AIVision #Manufacturing #Automation #TechCrunchDisrupt #AdvexAI #SeedFunding Dayna Grayson

Excited to announce Advex to the world and honored to be covered by Paul S. At TechCrunch Disrupt! #TechCrunchDisrupt2024 #SolveDataSolveAI

Another exciting model update from Anthropic. Upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock. It significantly improves upon the previous version, especially with coding where it scores higher on SWE-bench Verified than all other publicly available models. It also now has a new capability in beta for developers to explore called “computer use,” which enables Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate computer actions (like keystrokes and mouse clicks) to automatically complete tasks that might usually require dozens of steps (ex. booking a flight or ordering from a website). It’s still early for it but the promise is exciting. Cool to see the model progress and happy to have it as part of the widest selection of best-in-class models available in Bedrock. https://lnkd.in/gQwqfZAV